Kudos is an occasional column that recognizes Dartmouth faculty, students, and staff who have received awards or other honors. Did you or a colleague recently receive an award or honor? Please tell us about it: dartmouth.news@dartmouth.edu.
The Washington-based Council of Graduate Schools in December presented the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities to Vaughn Booker ’07, associate professor of religion and African and African American studies, for his book Lift Every Voice and Swing: Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century. The Arlt award recognizes a young scholar-teacher who has written a book deemed to have made an outstanding contribution to scholarship in the humanities, and Booker is the 52nd recipient.
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Senior Associate Provost Kenya Tyson last month was the recipient of the 2023 Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award and Gold Medallion from the Descendants of Rosewood Foundation Inc. The organization stems from the destruction of the predominantly Black town of Rosewood, Fla., in January 1923 at the hands of a white mob. At least eight people were killed in the attack.
Tyson is also the founder and executive director of The Black Massacre Project, which explores the historical race massacres perpetrated against Black communities in the United States.
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English professor and Director of Creative Writing Peter Orner’s book Still No Word From You was named to the long list for the 2023 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, which honors “a seasoned writer whose collection of essays is an expansion on their corpus of work and preserves the distinguished art form of the essay.” The finalists will be announced this month.
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Edgar Morales ’24, placed second in the Stolen and Found Poetry Contest. Morales is an undergraduate adviser at La Casa, the academic affinity house sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
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Thayer School of Engineering Professor Eugene Santos Jr. has been appointed to the Department of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board to provide independent advice on matters of science and technology relating to the Air Force’s mission. His academic work involves artificial intelligence at the intersection of information, cognition, human factors, and mathematics.
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James Bernat, a professor emeritus of neurology, received the 2022 Steven E. Hyman Award for Distinguished Service to the Field of Neuroethics in November. It’s the highest prize awarded by the International Neuroethics Society.
Bernat joined the faculty at the Geisel School of Medicine in 1976 and was the director of the Program in Clinical Ethics at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.
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Ford von Reyn ’67, MED ’69, a professor of medicine, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Tanzania during the university’s December commencement ceremonies. Von Reyn is the director of the DarDar International Programs at Geisel School of Medicine, and the award cited his contributions to the Dartmouth-MUHAS research and training collaboration.